Engineers are fine so long as you don’t camp flamethrower. Use your grenades, bombs, mines, riffle 3 & 5 and you will be doing great. Heck when pre stacking might you can use shield offhand for the might and switch to riffle before running in.
Or you dare to step out of the stereotype meta and support your group with green.. rather white numbers and dont care to be uber dps to prove a point.. that you could better prove with other classes. I dare to use a flamer as my main “weapon” in dungeons. Without a doubt the flamer is inferior to bombs or nades dps and condi wise, never gonna argue that point. But it is an aoe weapon and if you trait right and tinker a little arround you got an easy time with it in pve, i use the flamer since i play engi.. and i started out with this class. I get laughed at so many times when i pull out my flamer.. or e-gun in a dungeon, but at the end im the one who laughs inside if im the last one standing and heal\rez my group.. or plain and simple keep em alive while they dps while i apply some conditions with the e-gun, blind em with the flamer, lay down a fire field or spawn healing\regen stuff till the cows come home. While my skills cool down i use flamer 1 and 2 (and flamer 2 can pack a punch if you detonate the fire ball right after it went through the enemie. Sure.. dps wise my build might suck, but what good are dps if you cant do em in the first place.
Here.. thats the build i use for dungeons.. as for “solo non dungeon\fractal” stuff i switch the elixir-r with elixir-b.feel free to laugh and ridicule if it makes you feel better.
Flamethrower doesn’t heal anyone but yourself, and only to the extent that you have lifesteals proccing. If your party dies while you were off being useless I don’t think that’s really anything to brag about. Might as well sit at the entrance of the dungeon RPing with your guild and laughing at anyone who downs.
if you look at my build.. you will notice things like the e-gun(especially skill 5), the healing turret, the elixir-r… and the toolbelt skills that come with it. Now lets play a game of guessing what i do with them. If you guessed i stand in a corner and pick my nose with the barrel of the flamer you are wrong.. sadly. I prever the flamer cause i am right where (most) of the damage to the team happens.. the “front line” (cept its some ranged dps thingy). All 20 seconds the healing turret gets deployed for the sake of the team NOT my own.. i shove that thing out even if i got full hp and blast it to the moon to get the area heal and condi removal for the team. The 10 seconds the e-gun 5 skill needs to cool down (that also gets right on the team or if somebody is ranged and wounded) gets used to (depending on the enemie) slap some conditions on the enemie or switch to the flamer to do some chip damage, blind the enemie or just put down a fire field. If a team mate gets beaten on the floor the elixir-r gets tossed over and also the healing mist gets instantly spammed right away its cooldown is done.. cept its a boss that likes to knock me on my kitten .. then i save that thing for my sake and thats actually the ONLY selfish thing i do.. and also only if neccesary. Yea.. i even if im close to death i run to my team mates before i do a healing galore to also let them benefit from it. Yea.. healing is also a part of teamplay…weird huh?
…gonna miss this skritt
. Come on its just a game and fun time. Dying is amazing.. specially if you fight organised people who know exactly what, where and when to do it to slowly twist your cheerfull smile to a distorted face of despair and self doubt till you simply quit the game cause you really just dont like this way to play or just the need to rebuild your entire char just to survive.